Note: the boy Ahsoka mentions is not Lux, even though I want to make her punch him in the face.

Fight

"Oh, you blew it, Snips. You blew it. What happened anyway?" Anakin knelt down beside his apprentice, who was lying in the dirt with the wind knocked out of her. She sat up and regained her breath.

"The Senator's son didn't like what I said to him, so he decked me." She licked some blood off her teeth and grinned.

"Well..., did you fight back?" Anakin asked. She rolled the eye that wasn't swollen shut.

"Duh," She replied as he helped her to her feet.

"Did you win?" Anakin asked out of morbid curiousity.

"Yup," she replied impishly, wiping blood from her nose.

"Ah, atta girl! Let me get Kix, alright?"

"Nah, I don't need him," she replied. "You taught me to be tough, right?"

"Well, yeah, But," Anakin trailed off. He knew her nose must be throbbing, if not broken, and her black eye looked pretty bad.

"And that's what I'm doing. Being tough."

"What'd you say to the kid anyway?"

"I told him he was a bantha-brained son of a gundark cause he couldn't see through the lies of the Seps," She said. Anakin choked back his laughter and tipped her chin up in a firm grasp.

"Seriously though, I'm getting Kix."

...

"You sure have a way with people, Master," Ahsoka told Anakin as she offered a hand for him to stand.

"Yeah?" he brushed himself off.

"Oh, yeah." Ahsoka looked him up and down. "You look terrible."

"You shoulda seen the other guy," Anakin replied, wiping blood from a cut on his temple. His eye was black and his nose was bleeding, and he leaned heavily on Ahsoka's shoulder as they walked back to the outbuilding, favoring his right leg.

"What'd you say to the guy anyway?"

"Oh, just a friendly fist fight, Snips," he replied nonchalantly as they reached the sidewalk. It wouldn't be until later that Ahsoka would find out from Master Obi-Wan that the man Anakin had fought had been a Zygerrian slave-trader.

"Right. Do you want Kix?"

"Nah, I'm fine," he replied.

"Master, it is beyond me how you stay alive and unhurt when we're in the middle of a battle, but you get injured in a stinking fist fight," Ahsoka said.

He just laughed and wiped blood from his nose.